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UPDATE: KSU football player arrested

Updated: Sat 6:32 PM, Oct 06, 2012

CHICAGO, IL (WKYT) - We're learning more about the night that a Kentucky State University football player was arrested.

The alleged incident happened last Saturday in Chicago.

Senior, starting quarterback, Martez James is accused of inappropriately touching a housekeeper at a Chicago hotel where the football team was staying.

According to a Chicago Police document, James asked the hotel employee for five minutes of her time, but she ignored him.

Police say moments later, James enters a room where this housekeeper was cleaning, and allegedly pressed his genitals against the back of her body.

James faces a misdemeanor battery charge.

KSU officials tell us he is still a member of the football team.


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